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Podcast: Bone and Sickle
Episode: The Jinn
Description: They Arabic mythology of the jinn is, not surprisingly, quite different than what you might glean from Western pop culture. Films such as 1940’s The Thief of Baghdad and 1958 Ray Harryhausen classic, The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, which we hear sampled in our opening might have you believe these creatures function as nothing more than wish-granting slaves, but their existence needn’t be entangled with human wants and needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugMmyjCdpoQ&t=205s
One Thousand and One Nights, or the collection sometimes titled Arabian Nights, is the original Western source when i...